Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: 谷月社 ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as a boy) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1460402812 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeare’s day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comedy; with an emphasis on farce or on autumnal melancholy; as straightforward celebration of heterosexual love and marriage or as exploration of the complexity of gender. David Carnegie and Mark Houlahan’s introduction to the play provides a lively discussion of the play’s performance history and encourages readers to think about stagecraft and the play as a performance text, while the historical appendices provide materials that illuminate different thematic elements of the play. Extended notes interleaved throughout the play present relevant illustrations and expand on mythological, historical, and religious references in the play. The accompanying online text will offer additional commentary on staging alternatives and more extensive visual materials. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.
Author: Publisher: Evans Brothers ISBN: 9780237518738 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
The books in this series provide support material to help students and teachers in the study of Shakespeare. In particular, it is designed to give students with special educational needs and those with English as a second or other language access to this part of the national curriculum.
Author: Frances E. Dolan Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1472518314 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender identity, and helping you towards your own close-readings.
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Frances E. Dolan
Author: William Shakespeare